County’s Norton perfect in water

Pueblo County High School swimmer Jolene Norton had a perfect 4-for-4 day at the South-Central League meet.

The Hornets junior captured both of her individual events as well as helping County to win two relays, including the decisive 400 freestyle relay that she anchored to a victory that secured the team championship in the final race of the meet.

Norton just missed pool records in her 25.14-second 50 freestyle victory and 1:09.97 win in the 100 breaststroke.

Other top performances from Southern Colorado prepsters include:

La Junta swimmer Leah Roberson, who also won two individual races at the S-CL meet (200 individual medley and 100 freestyle) as well as a leg on the Tigers’ winning 200 freestyle relay.

Pueblo County’s Taybor Johnson won the 100 butterfly in a state-qualifying 1:03.47 and legs on the Hornets’ medley and 400 free relays. It was her 58-second leg that put County in front in the 400 relay.

Central freshman Kaylee Eakman topped the 400 mark for a first time when she scored a career-high 418.10 points to capture the 1-meter diving competition at the S-CL meet.

Pueblo County hockey player Matt Peters scored a hat trick in the Hornets loss to Machebeuf. With the Hornets trailing 5-2 in the second period, Peters scored back-to-back goals to pull PC within 5-4. After Machebeuf ended the period with a goal, Peters fired home his third goal of the night for a 6-5 deficit that wound up the final score.

Central High School 6-0 senior Chris Beltran was the week’s top scorer when he tallied 33 points for the Wildcats in a 90-81 win over Canon City in South-Central League play. Five of Beltran’s 11 buckets for the night came from 3-point range.

Other players to score 25 points or more included East’s Dylan Gavin with 28 against Pueblo County, the Hornets’ 5-4 senior Lindsey Sandoval (25 vs. East) and John Mall’s senior Brandon Bechaver (25 vs. Rye).

All of Crowley County junior Mason Wise’s 18 points against Fowler came on six 3-point baskets.

Canon City 170-pound wrestler Anthony Abbot notched the quickest pin of the week when he pinned Centauri’s Victor Valdez in 25 seconds.

In was one of nine pins registered in under a minute at the Canon City duals. Canon’s 113-pounder Cody Simms got two of them (:55 vs. Centauri and :57 vs. Vista Ridge).